{"id":25366,"date":"2015-04-13T00:15:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T04:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=25366"},"modified":"2015-04-11T15:14:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T19:14:13","slug":"shouldve-been-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/13\/shouldve-been-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Should&#8217;ve Been Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Many of you have gone on Spring Break or are anticipating taking a vacation this summer. It is a time to refresh spirit, soul, and body. Over the next couple of weeks, our faithful bloggers will be taking a &#8216;spring break&#8217; from writing so that they can come back to us refreshed and freshly anointed. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">However, Girlfriends&#8217; Coffee Hour website won&#8217;t \u2018go black\u2019! We will be revisiting some of our favorite blogs and daily devotions which have blessed us in the past. We pray that each of you, our faithful friends and readers, will continue to start your day meditating on the devotionals and songblogs, and be encouraged and blessed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Let&#8217;s give each of our bloggers a big round of applause, a hug, and the rest they so deserve. God bless you, ladies!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16629\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" width=\"341\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I\u2019ve read the story<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I\u2019ve seen the movie<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I give to charity<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And tithe my ten percent<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">These I remember<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">But I so easily forget<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">All these years never heard it like this<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>It should\u2019ve been me<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>It should\u2019ve been us<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Should\u2019ve been there hanging on a cross<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>All of this shame<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>All of these scars<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Should\u2019ve been stains that were never washed<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Why do I hide<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Why do You try<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Over and over and over again<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>I guess it just leaves me saying thank God<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>It leaves me saying thank God, thank God<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>For the should\u2019ve been<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I live a good life<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I love a great wife<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Our kids are beautiful<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">We got friends down the street<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">If I\u2019m so thankful<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Why do I easily forget<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">That You died for all of this<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">For this heart You changed<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">This soul You raised<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">My God for taking my place<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-xlNwDpPoWs?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Citizens Way<br \/>\nWritten by Ben Calhoun<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u271e \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<em><strong>If I\u2019m so thankful, why do I easily forget?<\/strong><\/em>\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That question goes straight through my heart. \u00a0Oh, around Easter\u2014I don\u2019t forget. \u00a0But the rest of the year\u2026it can be hit or miss. \u00a0How could I ever forget it should have been me? \u00a0That my sins nailed Christ to the cross? \u00a0How could I possibly take that for granted?<\/p>\n<p>This song is my reminder. It reminds me \u2014<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He was handed over to die because of our &lt;MY&gt; sins, and He was raised to life to make us &lt;ME&gt; right with God. \u00a0Romans 4:25 NLT<\/li>\n<li>God proves His own love for us &lt;ME&gt; in that while we &lt;I&gt; were still sinners, Christ died for us &lt;ME&gt;! \u00a0Romans 5:8 HCSB<\/li>\n<li>For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our &lt;MY&gt; sin, so that we &lt;I&gt; could be made right with God through Christ. \u00a02 Corinthians 5:21 NLT<\/li>\n<li>And He Himself bore our &lt;MY&gt; sins in His body on the cross, so that we &lt;I&gt; might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you &lt;I&gt; were healed. \u00a01 Peter 2:24 NASB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take a minute and read back through those Scriptures substituting <em><strong>your<\/strong><\/em> name for the &lt;pronouns&gt;. \u00a0 Makes it much more real and personal when you do that, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>As I was typing this, I kept thinking about the first two verses of the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidjeremiah.org\/site\/about\/becoming_a_christian.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Roman Road<\/a>\u201d I learned growing up\u2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God<br \/>\nRomans 3:23 HCSB<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.<br \/>\nRomans 6:23 HCSB<\/p>\n<p>It really <em><strong>should<\/strong><\/em> have been me. \u00a0It<strong><em>\u00a0REALLY should <\/em><\/strong>have been me! \u00a0The shame, the scars, the stains should have been mine. \u00a0How could I forget to thank God for the \u2018should have been\u2019? \u00a0Instead of being forgetful, let me make this my refrain:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #800080;\">For this heart You changed<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">This soul You raised<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">My God for taking my place<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">It leaves me saying thank God<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">For the should\u2019ve been<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u271e \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lord, thank You for Your never-ending mercy and grace. \u00a0Thank You for trying over and over again, especially when I become forgetful. \u00a0Most of all thank You for taking my place. \u00a0It should have been me. In Your precious name I pray \u2013 Amen, it is so!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you have gone on Spring Break or are anticipating taking a vacation this summer. It is a time to refresh spirit, soul, and body. Over the next couple of weeks, our faithful bloggers will be taking a &#8216;spring break&#8217; from writing so that they can come back to us refreshed and freshly anointed. 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